{"id":76816,"date":"2020-06-18T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=76816"},"modified":"2020-06-18T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:23:29","slug":"chicagos-mercury-theater-closing-permanently-lyric-opera-cancels-remaining-2020-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/chicagos-mercury-theater-closing-permanently-lyric-opera-cancels-remaining-2020-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago&#8217;s Mercury Theater Closing Permanently, Lyric Opera Cancels Remaining 2020 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/10-chicago-restaurants-that-have-permanently-closed-their-doors-this-year\/\">closures<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/lollapalooza-taste-of-chicago-more-just-canceled-their-2020-summer-festivals\/\">cancelations<\/a> from the coronavirus pandemic show no signs of slowing down. On Tuesday, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurytheaterchicago.com\/mercury-theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago\u2019s Mercury Theater<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced it would be shutting its doors permanently come the end of the month.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76469\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76469 size-buzzstone-thumb-square\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Kennedy-Rooftop-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Kennedy-Rooftop-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Kennedy-Rooftop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Kennedy-Rooftop-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Kennedy-Rooftop-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Kennedy-Rooftop-370x370.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Heron Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">View Rooftop Bars Open Now in Chicago<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking for something to do in your favorite city? View which rooftop bars are open in Chicago right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"vc_general vc_btn3 vc_btn3-size-md vc_btn3-shape-square vc_btn3-style-flat vc_btn3-block vc_btn3-color-primary\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/10-chicago-rooftop-bars-you-can-kick-back-at-right-now\/\">View Rooftop Bars Open Now in Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76825\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76825 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-from-Website.jpg\" alt=\"mercury closing\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-from-Website.jpg 750w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-from-Website-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-from-Website-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-from-Website-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-from-Website-406x271.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Mercury Theater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long adorned at its place on North Southport Avenue, the theater closed down in mid-March amid concerns of COVID-19. The initial closure halted the opening of <em>Priscilla, Queen of the Desert<\/em> and interrupted the running of the theater\u2019s production of <em>Shear Madness<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The massive loss of revenue from the closure has proved too large to surmount. Executive director, L. Walter Stearns, spoke of how the theater initially gave all staff two weeks\u2019 salary and paid off all show expenses due to the closures, expecting the closure to last only about a month. Putting the employees first, the theater maintained the staff for an additional 16 weeks. Stearns estimates that, with everything factored in, the loss sat around a quarter of a million dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76827\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76827\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-Yelp-Page.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-Yelp-Page.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-Yelp-Page-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-Yelp-Page-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-Yelp-Page-842x473.jpg 842w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-Yelp-Page-406x228.jpg 406w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mercury-Theater-Yelp-Page-270x152.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Mercury Theater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s midsize theaters like the Mercury that find themselves at the highest risk of keeping afloat, given that they usually own the spaces they operate in, unlike smaller theaters that can pivot away from those kinds of fixed costs. And unlike larger theaters that thrive off of donors and endowments, midsize theaters function off of investors that look for the return on investment via regular operations. And these closures aren\u2019t just specific to Chicago but to <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/local-shows-you-can-stream-online-if-youre-missing-chicago-theater\/\">theaters<\/a> all over the nation that cannot open their doors until the end of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76826\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76826\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lyric-Opera-House-of-Chicago-Yelp-Page.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lyric-Opera-House-of-Chicago-Yelp-Page.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lyric-Opera-House-of-Chicago-Yelp-Page-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lyric-Opera-House-of-Chicago-Yelp-Page-370x141.jpg 370w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lyric-Opera-House-of-Chicago-Yelp-Page-842x320.jpg 842w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lyric-Opera-House-of-Chicago-Yelp-Page-406x154.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Lyric Opera House of Chicago Yelp Page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This isn\u2019t to say that larger theaters with endowments and funding aren\u2019t facing their own challenges. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyricopera.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lyric Opera of Chicago<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which had already <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/lyricopera.org\/lyric-opera\/covid-19-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moved shows from its 2019-2020 season into upcoming seasons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, announced on June 16th that it would remain dark for the rest of 2020, meaning that the first half of its 2020-21 season will be interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally slated to launch September 17th with the double-bill of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cavalleria Rusticana <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pagliacci<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the company hopes to accommodate the affected shows from the first half of the 2020-21 season in upcoming seasons. It\u2019s unclear if the rescheduled of these shows will conflict with the already rescheduled shows from the latter half of the 2019-20 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other canceled shows, such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lessons in Love and Violence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tosca<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attila<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, are hoping to be rescheduled into later seasons along with the aforementioned double-bill. Lyric Opera\u2019s spring 2021 bill includes <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Elixir of Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Marriage of Figaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rake\u2019s Progress<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and a postseason production of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The company intends to reopen in January 2021 with a Chicago debut of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blue<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson. It was originally slated to open June 19th of this year. For a full update, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/lyricopera.org\/lyric-opera\/covid-19-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">head to their website.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At UrbanMatter, U Matter. 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